fossils and catastrophism.. Funk has a question

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The very fact that there are so many fossils, in the layers suggests that there have been a great many, or a few very tremendous and sudden catastrophies in the history of the earth.

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How exactly do the layers point to both options? Big events lok different than small ones.

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Now if all these layers were formed as gradually as mainstream geology would lead us to believe, how are there so many fossilized organisms? I would think at such a gradual rate, that almost all remains of these organisms would have rotted and detoriated long before they had a chance to fossilize.

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There aren't many fossils considering the time frame, because most rotted and deteriorated before they had a chance to fossilize.

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There are full large mammals frozen in the ice, with food still in their stomachs! This had to happen in a major hurry!

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Why? Current conditions near the poles and at the tops of some mountains are sufficient for this effect.

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If there have been such major catastrophies in the history of the earth, we must be very flawed in thinking that things have changed at the rate we currently observe.

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Major catastrophies leave evidence, funk. No one denies that they happen, but only deny the ones for which there is no evidence.

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Please forgive my spelling, I'm having one of those days when the english language looks and sounds absurd to me.

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Well, when you mix and match about thirty languages that's what you get. ------------------
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I know that catastrophies leave physical evidence, however isn't it possible that future catastrophies could, "damage" evidence of the first event.

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Sure. Its possible, but assuming a catastrophic event of good size it would take quite a lot to erase all of the evidence. The ash from the last eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano is spread over a huge chunk of North America. Wiping that out would be a trick, though its not impossible. On the other hand, some of the larger impact craters could have erased all the evidence of some smaller catastrophes-- floods, that sort of thing.I suspect you are thinking of Noah's Flood. Winging it a little, wiping out the evidence of a truly global catastrophe would be virtually impossible unless that catastrophe occured billions of years ago.------------------
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